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a. Note:   Census 1860, Buffalo Twp., Butler Co., Pennsylvania
 Robert Galbreath, head, age 70
 Henrietta, wife, age 60
 Mary Susan Springer, age 12
  Census 1870, Buffalo Twp., Butler Co., Pennsylvania
 Post Office, Saxonburg
 Robert Galbreath, head, age 82, farmer
 Henrietta, wife, age 72
 Helena Hill, age 82
 Lucinda Atler, age 11
  History of Butler Co., Pennsylvania, 1895
 Winfield Township, Chapter 39
  Among others who settled here early in the century were Arthur HILL and Robert GALBREATH, both Irishmen, and William HESSELGESSER and family, who came in 1815. In 1817 another Revolutionary veteran arrived in the person of Abraham LEASURE, and the year after, came Thomas BICKETT. James, William and David RALSTON and Robert GRAHAM were then residents. Francis JACKMAN and his wife arrived from France in 1832 and took possession of a tract of land near the present village of Denny or Delano station.
  History of Butler Co., Pennsylvania, 1895
 Internal Improvements, Winfield Township, Chapter 14
  When civilization first looked in through the forests of this region, not even a path was visible to the Caucasian travelers. For fully a half century after the French touched the shores of the Allegheny, where the river flows by the eastern corners of this Co., the white visitors could not find more than the Indian trails, which connected the villages of the aborigines:--one running northwest from the mouth of the Big Buffalo and one running northeast from Logstown, on the Ohio. Indeed from the year when the first pioneers of Butler Co., located in the wilderness, to 1802, when the first road was authorized, this Co., had no better highways than the Indian trails.
  The first mention of roads in connection with this Co., is found under date, November 6, 1802, in the transactions of the commissioners of Allegheny Co.. Under date December 9, 1802, mention is made of the first road--"Isaac VORIS' to Sam FINDLEY'S," as viewed by John MCCURDY. This road was opened from VORIS' cabin in Deer township, Allegheny Co., to FINDLEY'S cabin in the original township of Middlesex.
  The second road viewed, was that from Isaac VORIS' house in Deer township, Allegheny Co., to Robert GALBREATH's house on Big Buffalo creek, viewed in June, 1803. The third is mentioned under date, November 8, 1803, when David GILLILAND and four others received $15 for laying out twelve miles of road from the east line of Butler Co., to the seat of justice.


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